 On July 24 2017, Mercedes announced that they would enter the FIA Formula E Championship for the 2019-20 season with a works effort, leaving the DTM series in favour of the new venture.The team will be known as the Mercedes EQ Formula E team and will make use of the same powertrain development facility as the Formula One team, Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains in Brixworth, UK.One of the teams that ran Mercedes cars in the DTM entered the 2018-19 season as HWA Racelab, which will become the full works team in 2019-20.